Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis